EU member states are considering whether to allow the Canada trade agreement CETA to come into force provisionally after the Council and the Parliament have ratified it. Not doing so would be a significant break with previous practice, which has so far involved provisional application those parts of ‘mixed’ trade …
Canada and CETA
CETA – Now official : investment outside provisional application
The Slovak government has made clear that investment provisions of CETA will not be applied before all 28 member states ratify the deal. The Canadian trade deal concluded by the EU continues to be a hot potato in EU trade politics. It is the Slovak government, at the helm of the …
CETA: Commission caves in to member state political pressure, declares deal is ‘mixed’
The Commission’s intentions to declare CETA an EU-only agreement, loudly announced last week by President Jean-Claude Juncker, have backfired. Amidst a pushback from powerful member states, including France and Germany, the Commission has decided to declare CETA “mixed” and prioritised its coming into force provisionally as early as possible. …
CETA ratification saga: EPP endorses Commission view – France ready to block
The CETA ratification saga continues unfolding. There’s been a stir since Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Wednesday that the Commission would put the Canada EU trade deal CETA to the member states next week with the suggestion that it is a deal that falls under the exclusive competence of …
Berlin consternation in face of CETA national parliament bypass push
EU Commission President Juncker weighed in: the Commission sees CETA, the trade deal with Canada, as falling under “exclusive” EU competence and thus not requiring ratification by national parliaments. This is causing consternation in Berlin, though there are differences in point of view between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party and …
CETA: Dutch MPs call on Commission to wait for Singapore CJEU verdict before applying Canadian deal provisionally
Members of the upper and lower house of the Dutch parliament have called on the Commission to wait for the verdict of the Court of Justice of the EU before applying CETA ‘”provisionally” and to clarify the notion of what timeframe the notion of “provisional” entails. CETA, the EU …
